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Poststructural Policy Analysis Carol Bacchi

Poststructural Policy Analysis By Carol Bacchi

Poststructural Policy Analysis by Carol Bacchi


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It features examples of applications of the approach with topics as diverse as obesity, economic policy, migration, drug and alcohol policy, and gender equality to illustrate the growing popularity of this way of thinking and to provide clear and useful examples of poststructural policy analysis in practice.

Poststructural Policy Analysis Summary

Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice by Carol Bacchi

This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy. Instead of treating policy as simply the government's best efforts to address problems, it offers a way to question critically how policies produce problems as particular sorts of problems, with important political implications. Governing, it is argued, takes place through these problematizations. According to the authors, interrogating policies and policy proposals as problematizations involves asking questions about the assumptions they rely upon, how they have been made, what their effects are, as well as how they could be unmade. To enable this form of critical analysis, this book introduces an analytic strategy, the What's the Problem Represented to be? (WPR) approach. It features examples of applications of the approach with topics as diverse as obesity, economic policy, migration, drug and alcohol policy, and gender equality to illustrate the growing popularity of this way of thinking and to provide clear and useful examples of poststructural policy analysis in practice.

About Carol Bacchi

Carol Bacchi is Professor Emerita of Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her work over the past forty years has encouraged rethinking of taken-for-granted truths about women's history, equality policy and public policy generally. Major publications include: Same Difference: Feminism and Sexual Difference (1990), Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems (1999) and Analysing Policy: What's the Problem Represented to Be? (2009).
Susan Goodwin is Associate Professor of Policy Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on social policy and gender, and she contributes to policy processes at local, national and international levels. Recent publications include Markets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy (2015), Schools, Communities and Social Inclusion (2011) and Social Policy for Social Change (2010).

Table of Contents

Part I Asking new policy questions 1 Introduction 22 Making politics visible: The WPR approach 153 Key themes and concepts 33Power, knowledge and resistance 34Practices, events and relations 39Discourses and discursive practices 43Problematizing, problematizations, self-problematization 47Governmentality: rationalities and technologies 52Genealogy and subjugated knowledges 58Subjectification, subject positions and dividing practices 63Part II Interrogating policies as constitutive: WPR applications4 Making and unmaking problems 71Understandings of problems in policy analysis 72Alcohol and other drug problems 77Gender equality 805 Making and unmaking subjects 87Education policy 90Health policy 92Immigration policy 94Economic policy 96Transport/environment policy 98Disability/equality policy 99Family policy <1016 Making and unmaking objects 104traffic/cycling 107poverty/social inclusion 109addiction 111literacy 114States of being: wellbeing, disability, developing/developed 1167 Making and unmaking places 120Making (up) the state 123Making (up) Europe 124Making (up) urban/rural places 127Making (up) developed and developing places 130Making (up) public places 1328 Conclusion 135Appendix: Poststructural Interview Analysis: Politicizing personhood by Carol Bacchi and Jennifer Bonham 143Bibliography 155Index

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NGR9781137525444
9781137525444
1137525444
Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice by Carol Bacchi
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2016-10-25
149
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